Chance, Order, Change : the Course of International Law, General Course on Public International Law
Subtitle: The Course of International Law, General Course on Public International Law
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9789004268081
Subjects: International law, history
Description: The course of international law over time needs to be understood if international law is to be understood. This work aims to provide such an understanding. It is directed not at topics or subject headings sources, treaties, states, human rights and so on but at some of the key unresolved problems of the discipline. Unresolved, they call into question its status as a discipline. Is international law law properly so-called? In what respects is it systematic? Does it can it respect the rule of law? These problems can be resolved, or at least reduced, by an imaginative reading of our shared practices and our increasingly shared history, with an emphasis on process. In this sense the practice of the institutions of international law is to be understood as the law itself. They are in a dialectical relationship with the law, shaping it and being shaped by it. This is explained by reference to actual cases and examples, providing a course of international law in some standard sense as well.